Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)
ANDRÁS MÁRTON AND GYÖRGY NEMES: Corinthian White-Ground Lekythoi
The quick development of a typically Corinthian shape (Palmer's group ii lekythoi) may also be explained by this. Around 50 Attic white-ground lekythoi have been found in the cemeteries of Corinth. 92 In comparison with the ca. 130 pieces of Corinthian white-ground lekythoi from graves, we can say that the market was mostly filled with the products of local workshops until around 430 BC; while afterwards, only locally made white lekythoi remained. 9 ' Apart from Attica and Corinth, a locally made white-ground pottery also appeared in Eretria (ca. 430 BC). 94 Here the technique was probably introduced by two potters coming from Attica: the Torch and the Bern Painter. 9 ' Eretrian white-ground production consists mainly of lekythoi with ornamental decoration. 96 Based on the corpus of K. Gex, along with 228 Attic white lekythoi, 41 locally made vases are known, which totals c. 15 percent of all the lekythoi found in Eretria. In Corinth 83 percent of the vases were produced locally. 97 Thus, it can be seen that while in Corinth the local production, which started earlier than in Eretria, gradually replaced Attic import vases, this did not happen in Eretria, where the local products only appeared alongside the Attic imports. Besides meeting local needs, Corinthian white-ground and black-figure white lekythoi were exported too. A few pieces have been found in Boiotia, the Argolid, Attica, and also in Dyrrachium on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. 9H György Nemes, archaeologist (Kertész utca 7., Nagykanizsa, H - S 800), András Márton, archaeologist (Károly krt. 3/a., Budapest, H - 1075). AUTI lOR'S NOTE We would like to thank Prof. iMiklós Szabó for the valuable advice with which he helped our work, Prof. János György Szilágyi for his helpful attention following the birth of the manuscript, and Dr. Árpád Miklós Nagy for permission to study these vases and for his help throughout the preparation of this paper. We are indebted to Agnes Czétényi for letting us access the Gerster bequest in her possession. We would like to say thanks to Péter Agócs for the revision of the English text. The profile drawings of the vases will appear in Volume 3 of CVA Hongrie. The codes used for colour description refer to those of the Munsell Soil Color Charts.
